emper-or

Some of y'all may remember, back in the late 1960s, how the announcers at basketball games (in the specialized manner of those voices) pronounced Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's name--before he was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "Al-cin-dor," with secondary (or tertiary?) stress on the final syllable and a conspicuous "open o" (or maybe /o/).
--Charlie
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>Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:36:01 -0500
>From: "Mullins, Bill AMRDEC" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL>
>>In the 1970's kid show "Shazam!", Billy referred to Mentor with the strong emphasis on the last syllable.
>>And in the 1978 "Superman" movie, Ned Beatty (Otis) constantly spoke of Gene Hackman (Lex Luthor) as "Mr. Luthor" with the same pronounciation.
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